The world’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is recalling about 2,700 pounds of potentially underprocessed frankfurters shipped to New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, company and federal officials said. Agriprocessors Inc., based in Postville in northeast Iowa, is accepting returns on its …
Missouri-based Stuckey & Co., a specialty insurance program manager with over 8,000 independent insurance agents, recently announced the addition of Century Insurance Group to their list of carriers. Century primarily writes excess and surplus lines general liability and commercial property …
The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. announced that Jennifer Swartwout received its Arthur I. Moll Memorial Scholarship award. Swartwout is an assistant underwriter for Jimcor Agencies Inc. in Plainview, N.Y. PIANY presents the award, which honors Arthur …
Specialty insurance broker Colemont-Hartford has promoted Woody Baird to the position of executive vice president. Baird is a 26 year insurance industry veteran and has held senior positions in agencies, wholesale operations and insurance companies in his career. Prior to …
Houston, Texas-based USI Southwest and Carpenter Moore, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., announced an agreement to partner and provide executive liability services to public companies in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. The combined expertise and …
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco kicked off a three-day insurance outreach mission Jan. 29 in San Francisco, part of her continuing efforts to bring affordable insurance home to Louisiana, the governor’s office announced. “We in Louisiana have made great strides …
Ark. Gov. Mike Beebe has appointed Chandra Hicks as the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s newest Administrative Law Judge, the AWCC reported. The AWCC administrates the state’s workers’ compensation laws for employees, employers, medical providers, legal representatives of these groups, and …
Insurance and risk management firm McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT) announced that Wade T. Nowlin, Jr., a partner in the firm’s Dallas office, recently received the MHBT 2006 Producer of the Year award for the third time. The award …
Now is the time for small business owners to bone up on a new law that makes big changes in employee retirement plans. The Pension Protection Act of 2006, passed in August, rewrote many of the rules on pensions in …
A national organization of health care executives has agreed to disband amid an investigation by Connecticut authorities into whether it illegally gave preferential treatment to vendors who joined the group. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced an antitrust settlement last …
